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Where IS area 51?
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Dr Zoidberg wrote:
Jem wrote:
Warhead wrote:
Dad of three, 37, taking part in World Sex Championships

My favourite part, taken out of context: "Jax is getting paid £3,000 for entering..."

Woah woah woah, why am I only just hearing about this...


Because it doesn't seem to be real
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_se ... ition_hoax

Damn it :DD
Jem wrote:
Dr Zoidberg wrote:
Jem wrote:
Warhead wrote:
Dad of three, 37, taking part in World Sex Championships

My favourite part, taken out of context: "Jax is getting paid £3,000 for entering..."

Woah woah woah, why am I only just hearing about this...


Because it doesn't seem to be real
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_se ... ition_hoax

Damn it :DD


On the up side, there’s clearly a gap in the market.
My second favourite part of yesterday was the story about the bloke who found a bomb down the road from us. He took it home in his van "to clean it up", realised it was bomb, then drove in his van to put it back where he found it.

My favourite part was the newspaper article about a second bomb that was found in a house in the area with the police advice of "Please stop taking bombs home".

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/li ... e-28804451
Dr Zoidberg wrote:
Jem wrote:
Dr Zoidberg wrote:
Jem wrote:
Warhead wrote:
Dad of three, 37, taking part in World Sex Championships

My favourite part, taken out of context: "Jax is getting paid £3,000 for entering..."

Woah woah woah, why am I only just hearing about this...


Because it doesn't seem to be real
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_se ... ition_hoax

Damn it :DD


On the up side, there’s clearly a gap in the market.


The story has appeared in lots of regional newspapers, probably because they're all published by Reach PLC.
I'm trying to think of events they'd have. Javelin throw? Pole vault? 100m worm? Wrestling is a given. Nosh and Gobble relay?
Dimrill wrote:
I'm trying to think of events they'd have. Javelin throw? Pole vault? 100m worm? Wrestling is a given. Nosh and Gobble relay?


Would it not just be who is the best at the C64 classic 'Sex Games' (slightly NSFW link below for the game on Lemon64)

Code:
https://www.lemon64.com/review/ sex-games/ 1178
zaphod79 wrote:
Quote:
Billions of miles away at the edge of the Solar System, Voyager 1 has gone mad and has begun to die.


https://crookedtimber.org/2024/02/19/de ... ely-death/


And an update :

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/14/ ... op-article

Quote:
Voyager 1 starts making sense again after months of babble
Veteran spacecraft shows signs of sanity with poke from engineers
On and off, it's been raining cats and dogs here. I am not complaining too much, though, as it could be hailing taxis.
Happy DavPaz day!
Happy Birthday, DavPaz!
Happy birthday!

Giphy "davpaz birthday":
https://media0.giphy.com/media/LnQoAUr1UlBCBaqjaI/giphy-loop.mp4
Happy Birthday, Malc!
Happy Birthday, Malc!
More importantly. What did you both get?
Happy Birthday Malc!

Giphy "malc birthday":
https://media4.giphy.com/media/hkE6wynetELGa7xOjq/giphy-loop.mp4
Thanks guys, I've been really shit at acknowledging this sort of thing the last few years. I fear I'm becoming less communicative generally online as well as in real life. Sorry about that
Hullo all. Happy Birthday for yesterday Malc! Been offline a bit of late but am ready to pop back here, as it is a happy space. Been missing you guys a bit. Wub. Off to American soon on the 4th for a great big road trip, Seattle to Chicago. Took a bit of a mental health hit with the continuous dark, rainy days and flow of crap news, among other things, but now the sun is slowly returning and I'm getting fired up about this trip (albeit with butterflies in stomach) I'm coming out of my shell a bit again. Anyway, will blather later, am on train at mo' to visit the fam, then a birthday curry. Hugs to you all!
Enjoy your next big adventure, Pete! Looking forward to seeing your pics.
Beex is now old enough to play the lottery, buy Monster and fuck other forums.
Grim... wrote:
Beex is now old enough to play the lottery, buy Monster and fuck other forums.

Scary stuff.
I think the lottery is 18 now though.
Mr Russell wrote:
Grim... wrote:
Beex is now old enough to play the lottery, buy Monster and fuck other forums.

Scary stuff.
I think the lottery is 18 now though.


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MaliA wrote:
Mr Russell wrote:
Grim... wrote:
Beex is now old enough to play the lottery, buy Monster and fuck other forums.

Scary stuff.
I think the lottery is 18 now though.


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No, wait, I just understood.
I’ve been tidying the loft, and found a couple of my leather jackets from 30+ years ago.

I’ll give them a good clean up, but I’m not sure I’ll fit very easily.
Leather stretches, right?
They're awesome! I'm not sure why you would ever stop wearing jackets like those?

Also, that white space ship in the corner of that box. I used to have that... and, I think I can spot an orange Go Bot in the middle of that box. I had that too! Some kind of JCB/digger type thing?
Also... 30 years ago... 1994.

Jeez.
TheVision wrote:
They're awesome! I'm not sure why you would ever stop wearing jackets like those?

Also, that white space ship in the corner of that box. I used to have that... and, I think I can spot an orange Go Bot in the middle of that box. I had that too! Some kind of JCB/digger type thing?

I used to have that green truck thing if the back pops open with some sort of rocket launchers inside. Not thought about it for decades.
I used to have that Buck Rodger’s space ship too!
DavPaz wrote:
Leather stretches, right?


It would have to.

The green toys are Matchbox Adventure 2000. I’ve got most of the range but they are all very battered. Unsurprisingly, boxed ones in good condition fetch over a hundred quid.
My best bit about today was explaining to someone from Leeds what a "plummy accent" is.
MaliA wrote:
My best bit about today was explaining to someone from Leeds what a "plummy accent" is.

What is a ‘plummy accent’?
Mimi wrote:
MaliA wrote:
My best bit about today was explaining to someone from Leeds what a "plummy accent" is.

What is a ‘plummy accent’?


Mine.
MaliA wrote:
Mimi wrote:
MaliA wrote:
My best bit about today was explaining to someone from Leeds what a "plummy accent" is.

What is a ‘plummy accent’?


Mine.

You're a Brummie!
DavPaz wrote:
MaliA wrote:
Mimi wrote:
MaliA wrote:
My best bit about today was explaining to someone from Leeds what a "plummy accent" is.

What is a ‘plummy accent’?


Mine.

You're a Brummie!


Wait, they might have said that.
I know what a plummy accent is, I just wanted to know how you described it :)
Mimi wrote:
I know what a plummy accent is, I just wanted to know how you described it :)


"It's sounds like me, you daft Leodian".
Got my gig ticket, did a tip run, about to have a haircut.

What a day! Hitting the notes and rocking the boxes.
“Why did the chicken cross the road?”
“To get to the other side”

I’ve just realised that this “the other side” is talking about the afterlife, because the chicken was killed
Christ, that's deep.
Dr Zoidberg wrote:
“Why did the chicken cross the road?”
“To get to the other side”

I’ve just realised that this “the other side” is talking about the afterlife, because the chicken was killed


Whoa.

Giphy "galaxy brain":
https://media2.giphy.com/media/YvnvGVQQKO9W8LQse3/giphy-loop.mp4
Why are so many Giphy things static images?
I don't know if that was a general question, but that's not a static image...
Grim... wrote:
I don't know if that was a general question, but that's not a static image...

Isn’t it? I press play and it does nothing. It’s completely still. But then… they all seem like that now, and so from your response I’m guessing that it’s ME that’s broken and not Giphy?! D’oh.
Dr Zoidberg wrote:
“Why did the chicken cross the road?”
“To get to the other side”

I’ve just realised that this “the other side” is talking about the afterlife, because the chicken was killed

:blown:

I don't know why that's never occurred to me before
Hmm, pretty sure that the joke is just that it's not a joke.
I always thought it was just a shit joke. But now I’m thinking my whole life has been a lie.
I suspect that this is a more modern interpretation and it wasn’t the original intention, but still a proper WTF moment.
When I was in secondary school, we had some kids visiting from the primary school down the road. Can't have been a "this is what big school is like" thing because they were only 6 or 7, but they were given an exercise to come up with a joke and to write it down.

I'll always remember one of them.

Why did the cow cross the road?
To get some grass.

Up until just now, I've always thought "kids are fucking stupid", but what if he was just ahead of the curve and was talking about a weed dealer on the other side of the road?
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